Remains identified, MCSO looks elsewhere

Remains found alongside Interstate-75 in Hillsborough County were identified last week as those of a woman missing for six years.

The woman was identified as Lisa Ann Mowrey, 18 at the time of her disappearance. She was last seen Feb. 26, 2004, leaving home to go to a hairstyling school in Tampa.

Manatee County Sheriff’s Office detectives investigating the disappearance of Holmes Beach resident Sabine Musil-Buehler had contacted Tampa authorities after the remains, partially covered by brush and debris, were found March 16.

The remains, including a skull, were found off Interstate-75 about a mile north of Bruce B. Downs Boulevard in Tampa.

Soon after the remains were discovered, the medical examiner’s office in Hillsborough confirmed that they were that of a woman.

The announcement led law enforcement personnel around the state to begin reviewing their missing person and unsolved homicide files, including MCSO, which has been investigating the disappearance of Musil-Buehler, co-owner of Haley’s Motel in Holmes Beach, since Nov, 6, 2008.